Dr Ben Youngman

Here is my personal webpage.

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. I joined the University of Exeter in 2012 as a Willis Research Fellow to work statistical methods for natural hazard events, in particular European wind-storms, which was awarded the 2016 Lloyd's Science of Risk Prize. 

Main topic of research in the statistical modelling of extremes, typically related to trying to understand extreme weather events. I spend quite a lot of time developing R packages:

• evgam, for generalised additive extreme value models
• ppgam, with Theo Economou, for generalised additive point process models
• deform, for Gaussian process deformation models
• evgmrf, with Ayu Shabrina, for extreme value models with Gaussian Markov random field structures. 

Do get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on any of the following topics:

• Statistical modelling of extreme values and events
• Spatial statistics
• Natural hazards